Example sentences of "for about a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 2 | If unopened , perfume will keep for about a year . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't had my hair cut for about a year and neither has Meera so I thought it was time for a change . ’ |
| 4 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 5 | For about a year he 's been analysing abduction experiences , with the aim of putting together a psycho-social profile of the classic victim . |
| 6 | Richard Baxter continued preaching in these churches for about a year until 1662 , when he was forbidden by law from any further public ministry . |
| 7 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 8 | For about a year afterwards Anna received aromatherapy massage whenever she felt the need — once , sometimes twice , a month . |
| 9 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 10 | ‘ Con Gallagher and Una have been lovers for about a year now . ’ |
| 11 | They remained on the cars for about a year , working regularly on route 16/18 . |
| 12 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 13 | She was in depression for about a year . |
| 14 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 15 | ‘ I had n't worked for about a year and a half , and I was about to compromise — to take a part in a stupid comedy . |
| 16 | At that time Dr. Yeats indicated to Samuel Whitbread that he intended , after having considered the matter for about a year , to ‘ transplant myself to the metropolis and … quit the early scenes of my professional exertions after 15 years in Bedford ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ For about a year . |
| 18 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 19 | We was dabbling for about a year then … . |
| 20 | Two of the women who were moved up with me had already been in prison , one for about a year , one for about eight months , so they knew what to expect . |
| 21 | It may even be that in Kent for about a year after Ecgberht 's death , ‘ Wulfhere could have been the effective ruler ’ . |
| 22 | The independent Spanish magazine Piragüismo de las Autonomías has been running for about a year now . |
| 23 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 24 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 25 | So I had a job for about a year er in a fruit shop and then I did n't like the Saturday work |
| 26 | For about a year , since the summer before last , in fact , I had been writing to her and she to me and , because of the distance and something else I have n't been able to put my finger on ( maybe a need for excitement ) , the letters had become more and more sentimental , more and more loving , more and more like proper love letters . |
| 27 | And erm I was there for about a year . |
| 28 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 29 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 30 | I was over the moon — although this only lasted for about a year as I paid a visit with some friends to see the 1991 ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ at Wembley . |